KARIM BARDEESY

Distinguished Visiting Professor / Special Adviser to the President

Karim Bardeesy is a public service leader who has worked at the intersection of public policy, politics, journalism and academia for the last 15 years. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Special Adviser to the President at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he is launching the new Ryerson Leadership Lab. He was previously Deputy Principal Secretary for the Premier of Ontario, the Hon. Kathleen Wynne, and served as Executive Director of Policy for Premiers Wynne and Dalton McGuinty. He has worked as an editorial writer at The Globe and Mail and has a B.A. from McGill University, and an M.P.P. from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.